Have You Downloaded Your Tennis Mask?

I’m flicking around the BBC Sport website this morning as I’m often wont to do, reading about the World Twenty20 (big day for Sri Lanka, innit?), watching an interview with David Haye talking about his stupid, stupid back injury, and checking in on the latest news from Great Britain’s latest taekwondo heartthrob, Sarah Stevenson (she’s returning from injury, you’ll be pleased to know). ↵↵And then a little hyperlink catches my eye titled “Download a Tennis Mask.“ Never one to shrink from a good tennis mask, I investigated, and let me tell you something -- these are definitely some top-notch tennis masks. “The tennis season is with us again,” the accompanying piece announces, “so why not get behind your favourite player by looking like them.” Bloody good idea, mate, bloody good. They’ve got full-size, printable PDF masks for Federer, Nadal, Andy Murray, and then the real head-scratcher, Tim Henman. Old passions die hard in the Jolly Old, I suppose, but someone should tell those mask-makers over there that Tim Henman is retired. He’s a BBC commentator now, I realize, but still … would you expect the American tennis mask-makers to whip one up for Brad Gilbert, or Pat McEnroe? John McEnroe, maybe, but that’s different. You see, unlike Henman, John McEnroe actually won something back in the day. ↵

↵↵But anyway, all sniping aside, what I mean to tell you is this: BBC Sport has some smashing good tennis masks on offer at the moment. I recommend you get all four, even Henman, because what the hell? He’s a good-looking bloke, excellent hair, and it’s a well-drawn mask, I must admit.↵

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